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Аннотация к аудиокниге he Republic (Greek: Πολιτεία, Politeia; Latin: Res Publica) is a Socratic dialogue, written by Plato around 375 BC, concerning justice (δικαιοσύνη), the order and character of…

Аннотация к аудиокниге «The Reluctant Dragon» is an 1898 children’s story by Kenneth Grahame, originally published as a chapter in his book Dream Days. It is Grahame’s most famous…

Аннотация к аудиокниге The Queen of Spades is a short story with supernatural elements by Alexander Pushkin about human avarice. Pushkin wrote the story in autumn 1833 in Boldino…

Аннотация к аудиокниге The first narrative in the collection is «The Prussian Officer», which tells of a Captain and his orderly. Having wasted his youth gambling, the captain has…

Аннотация к аудиокниге The Prophet is a book of 26 prose poetry fables written in English by the Lebanese-American poet and writer Kahlil Gibran. It was originally published in…

Аннотация к аудиокниге The Prince is a 16th-century political treatise by the Italian diplomat and political theorist Niccolo Machiavelli. From correspondence a version appears to have been distributed in…

Аннотация к аудиокниге «William Blake an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of both the…

Аннотация к аудиокниге The Outrage – A True Story, Aleksandr Ivanovich Kuprin. Kuprin wrote the story immediately after the bloody demonstrations in St. Petersburg, Russia, in January, 1905, known…

Аннотация к аудиокниге The Other Wise Man is a short novel or long short story by Henry van Dyke. It was initially published in 1895 and has been reprinted…

Аннотация к аудиокниге «The Offshore Pirate» is a short story written by F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1920. It is one of eight short stories included in Fitzgerald’s first published…

Аннотация к аудиокниге The Odyssey is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is, in part, a sequel to the Iliad, the other Homeric…

Аннотация к аудиокниге «»«The Monkey’s Paw»» is a supernatural short story by author W. W. Jacobs, first published in England in the collection The Lady of the Barge in…

Аннотация к аудиокниге The Metamorphosis (German: Die Verwandlung) is a novella written by Franz Kafka which was first published in 1915. One of Kafka’s best-known works. Gregor Samsa wakes…

Аннотация к аудиокниге The Madman, His Parables and Poems is a book written by Kahlil Gibran, which was published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf in 1918,…

Аннотация к аудиокниге «The Luck of Roaring Camp» is a short story by American author Bret Harte. It was first published in the August 1868 issue of the Overland…

Аннотация к аудиокниге «The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published on 25 April 1719. The first edition credited the work’s protagonist…

Аннотация к аудиокниге Leonid Nikolaivich Andreyev was born in Orel in 1871. After his father’s death he was thrown upon his own resources, but managed to study at both…

Аннотация к аудиокниге The Lees of Happiness – one of the stories, which entered in a collection of eleven short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald «Tales of the Jazz…

Аннотация к аудиокниге «The favorite story of the Dutch settlement of Sleepy Hollow, New York, is an ominous ghost story. A headless horseman is waiting for belated travelers. Ikabod…

Аннотация к аудиокниге «The Lady with the Dog» is a short story by Anton Chekhov. First published in 1899, it describes an adulterous affair between Dmitri Dmitritch Gurov, an…

Аннотация к аудиокниге «The King in Yellow is a book of short stories by American writer Robert W. Chambers, first published by F. Tennyson Neely in 1895. The book…

Аннотация к аудиокниге The Jelly-Bean – one of the stories, which entered in a collection of eleven short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald «Tales of the Jazz Age» (1922)….

Аннотация к аудиокниге Arthur Machen (3 March 1863 – 15 December 1947) was the pen-name of Arthur Llewellyn Jones, a Welsh author and mystic of the 1890s and early…

Аннотация к аудиокниге In «The Embroidered Towel» by Mikhail Bulgakov the young doctor arrives at his new post after a bone-jarring 24-hour wagon ride. He frets about how young…

Аннотация к аудиокниге «The Dream of a Ridiculous Man» (Russian: Сон смешного человека, Son smeshnovo cheloveka) is a short story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky written in 1877. It chronicles the…

Аннотация к аудиокниге Размышления главных персонажей новеллы – Адама и Евы – преподаны Твеном в форме дневниковых записей. Автор вновь поднимает вечный вопрос о земном существовании с двух точек…

Аннотация к аудиокниге The Divine Comedy Inferno by Dante Alighieri, begun c. 1308 and completed in 1320, that gives the widest synthesis of medieval culture and world ontology. Dante’s…

Аннотация к аудиокниге The Diamond as Big as the Ritz is a novella by novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald. It was first published in the June 1922 issue of The…

Аннотация к аудиокниге The Death of Ivan Ilyich – first published in 1886, is a novella by Leo Tolstoy, considered one of the masterpieces of his late fiction, written…

Аннотация к аудиокниге В настоящее издание включены два рассказа из раннего периода творчества американского писателя Фрэнсиса Скотта Фицджеральда [1896 – 1940], вошедшего в историю мировой литературы романами о жизни…

Аннотация к аудиокниге О’Генри – американский писатель. Рассказы О’Генри отличаются изобретательной фабулой, неожиданными развязками и насмешливым юмором. Они образуют сказочно-авантюрную эпопею американской жизни, полную достоверных бытовых примет и метких…

Аннотация к аудиокниге «»The Dead»» is the final short story in the 1914 collection Dubliners by James Joyce. The other stories in the collection are shorter, whereas at 15,952…